hey naturals what's up it's your
favorite American English teacher Gabby
with a go natural English lesson to help
you with your vocabulary and
pronunciation so I love learning about
the history of words the origins that
etymology and today I want to share 25
English words that have origins and
Brazilian Portuguese super interesting
if you are a Portuguese speaker these
words are going to be familiar to you
already because they're part of your
everyday vocabulary however you may not
be familiar with how American English
speakers native English speakers that is
actually say these words in English you
might not even recognize them because we
change the words a lot so keep watching
to learn what these words are and you
know what if you're watching this and
you're not a Portuguese speaker you can
still learn a lot about vocabulary words
in English and just knowing that they're
from Portuguese will help you to
remember them because when we connect
words new words with something else that
connection helps our brain to remember
the words so I think this will be a
super interesting lesson especially if
you're a Portuguese speaker but if
you're not keep watching and you might
find it interesting and learn some
Portuguese as well so if you're ready
let's start I'm just gonna go in
alphabetical order and say each word
twice the way a native North American
English speaker would say the words and
for the Spanish speakers out there I
know a lot of these words could also be
from Spanish some of the origins are
unclear but a lot of them are also from
Brazilian culture so I'll just say some
of them could be from Spanish or even
have origins in other languages because
the history of language is not always
super clear but let's begin number one
one of my favorite foods or ingredients
I should say in smoothies is acai
however there's a lot of different ways
that
American English speakers will say this
sometimes they don't know that the sea
is like an S and they'll say I've KY but
the correct way that native English
speakers are supposed to say is a site
just like you say it in Brazil number 2
banana or banana in Portuguese in
American English we say banana banana
number 3 - rhenium is the way we say it
in Portuguese but in American English
you'd probably hear caipirinha
or maybe Chi Purina sometimes we don't
do so well with the you know sounds but
you know this drink is really trendy
right now so you'll probably see it on
the menu in a lot of places in the US
and abroad number four is a martial art
in Portuguese you would say capoeira and
in Native American English accents you
would probably hear something like
capoeira that hurts me to say but it is
always bad so this is getting really
popular in the United States
number five is cashew a kind of nut so
in Portuguese you say Kazu but in
English we say cashew and it's spelled a
little bit differently to cashew number
six is coconut so it's a little bit
different in Portuguese and you say Coco
but in English we say coconuts well it's
actually a fruit it's not a nut but it's
delicious I love coconut in everything
number seven Creole Creole is slightly
different than it is in portuguese
criolo Lu in English we say Creole
Creole Creole is a mix of cultures
usually European and African so this
could refer to a person of food or music
or some kind of cultural phenomenon
number eight the English word is dodo so
a dodo is a bird but it can be an insult
to if you call someone a dodo it means
they're really not very smart
or a little crazy and some resources
have indicated that it comes from the
Portuguese word oil meaning crazy number
9 and 10 are really specific traditional
foods in Brazil so we have no
translation for them in English but if
you're talking about brazilian cuisine
you would just say these words so number
nine is feijoada in portuguese and 10 is
farofa in portuguese an american would
probably say beige wada feijoada so you
can see where the vowels get blended
together and lengthened and far Rafa for
rofo so you have the American English
are there instead of the kind of lighter
Portuguese are number 11 flamingo so a
flamingo is a pink bird we have it in
Florida and the United States and in
Portuguese it's the exact same word
flamingo but maybe pronounced a little
differently right so in English we say
flamingo flamingo flamingo flamingo
number 12
Gua Rinna is the English word from the
Portuguese Bwana which is a seed a
natural seed that has a lot of caffeine
and you might find it in beverages so
again the English pronunciation is war
enough Warren on it kind of hurts me to
say this
because I'm used to using this word more
in Portuguese but it's kind of trendy
with health nuts or people who are
interested in healthy ingredients so you
might see it in a health food store or
maybe if you're buying some brazilians
we're number 13 the Lambada is a type of
dance or music so in English we say
Lambada
Lambada number 14 launch - launch
something in English is well literally
it's used for boats when you put a boat
in the water and you sail it or you
drive it you know wherever you're going
to launch also is very commonly used for
new projects when you start or begin a
new project let's launch the project on
Monday and this is related to the
Portuguese word launch which is a small
to medium-sized power boats so very
similar there so again in English to
launch launch 15
lingo lingo is jargon or a foreign
language or dialect that people speak so
this comes from the Portuguese lingua or
language so again the English
pronunciation is lingo lingo number 16
mango is from the Portuguese word Naga
mango mang mango excuse me I keep
wanting to use the Portuguese
pronunciation of manga but mango is the
American English pronunciation of one of
my favorite fruits it's so delicious
mango mango 17 manioc manioc is not a
super common kind of starchy vegetable
or flower but we do use it more and more
especially with trending health food
items so in Portuguese it would be Mon
Jhulka and sometimes in English you'll
see it as manioc or cassava so again
manioc
Manea 18 mosquito so same thing in
portuguese mosquito maybe pronounced a
little bit differently but an English
piece a mosquito mosquito you know that
little bug that sucks your blood and
leaves an itchy little thumbs nobody
really likes mosquitoes do that number
19 in English is negro in Portuguese
this negative but in English we don't
use this word anymore because it can be
a slur can be racist it's just not
appropriate you will occasionally see it
used in more historical information such
as in Missouri there is a museum called
the Negro baseball league museum but
it's just not used so don't use it in
conversation it's just more for
historical use number 20 piranha piranha
and Portuguese catania piranha piranha
is a fish with lots of little jagged
teeth and fat fish is dangerous it eats
others fish and animals and stuff watch
out for the piranhas if you're going
swimming in a river in Brazil or
something
number 21 potato is from the Portuguese
but in American English we say potato I
say potato you say potato this is a
common idiom to say hey I say it this
way you say it that way like we're
different but it's okay
22 Samba again kind of dance music from
Brazil exactly the same in Portuguese
and English 23 savvy in English is from
the Portuguese sabe savvy and English
means a person who knows things if you
are knowledgeable you are savvy savvy
savvy 24 tapioca it's from the
Portuguese popular
that's is the same so tapioca could be a
kind of flour made from manioc with
sometimes they make little curls or
bubbles maybe you've heard of bubble tea
well that's made from tapioca flour and
finally number 25 is zombie zombie has
kind of unclear origins but I did find
sources online that said that zombie
comes from the Portuguese word Zumbi
which has Congolese origins so it's kind
of unclear where this came from
but the word zombie entered the English
language from a historian and poet who
was writing about Brazil and used this
word so at least that's what I
understand is that zombie comes from
Portuguese now if you want to add some
words to this list or if you want to
debate origins of any of these words let
me know in the comments and if you find
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